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brothers and sisters of great stallions 

 or brood-mares vary in their value as 

 producers. If all stallion colts of this 

 combination were castrated and all 

 fillies from this combination were 

 never bred, it would be a good thing. 

 In every big sales stable, you will find 

 horses called "Dummies." They come 

 from this combination, and are easily 

 known by their lack of intelligence and 

 physical vitality; and among humans, 

 we have our "Sissie" and our "Tom- 

 boy." 



A "Sissie" has a soft voice and pre- 

 fers to play with girls. As a general 

 thing, neither have any great longe- 

 vity. A "Tom-boy" has a man's voice, 

 and prefers to play with boys. She 

 often has coarse hair, sometimes 

 growing in bunches. How many chil- 

 dren have you ever known a "Sissie" 

 or "Tom-boy" to have? I confess my 

 information in this particular is very 

 meager, but it is to the effect that 

 neither produce to any great extent. 

 Dr. Robert T. Morris, in "Microbes and 



